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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The safety concern is such a joke.  My kids go to WJ.
No one checks their ID going into the school.  If you hold a piece of paper shaped like an ID or a credit card up, they let you in.  
You can easily jump over the fence to get in/out of campus.  
If they cared about safety, there are tons of things they could do.  The kids that want to fight are going to do that on campus or just leave campus and do it—they don’t care if it’s open lunch or closed lunch.

And I am very doubtful that the majority of businesses oppose getting these kids business.  [b]If they don’t want it, they could just decline to admit HS students[/b].  Has anyone polled the businesses at G Square, Wildwood and RTC, for instance?  Their revenue will really drop.  [/quote]

Uh....I'm not sure that would be legally defensible.[/quote]

Sure it would.  A private business can decline to serve anyone so long as it doesn’t violate anti discrimination laws.  Being a teenager is not a protected class.  Giant already limits the number of HS kids in there at any given time.[/quote]

Limiting the number of kids allowed in at one time is different from outright banning them.[/quote]

From a legal perspective, not really.  Limiting access is burdening one class of customer.  That's totally fine because teenagers are not a protected class under any of the applicable public accommodations laws.  You couldn't say "we're only allowing in 20 people of this particular race" anymore than you could ban people of a particular race, because both would violate the public accommodations laws in the federal and state civil rights acts (eg Title II of the 1964 Civil Rights Act). But you can say that you are limited the number of HS students in the store/restaurant, or banning them altogether, if you would like.  The truth is that most of these eating establishments are happy to have the students, particularly in the 11-12 hour which is before the main lunch rush, because it is good stable revenue for them.  Giant made a different decision because they have a much wider revenue base, the kids weren't buying the expensive groceries, and they have different concerns about shop lifting, for instance.  But I'd be very, very surprised if Flippin', Subway, Chipotle, Chop't, and Bethesda Bagels oppose the open lunch policy at WJ.  And same for the pizza place and Panera at RTC for RM, and the pizza place and Starbucks near BCC.[/quote]

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